IGREJA PENTECOSTAL DEUS É AMOR: ORIGENS, CARACTERÍSTICAS E EXPANSÃO / Pentecostal Church God is Love- Beginnings characteristics and expansion

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

We endeavored to demonstrate that the Pentecostal Church God is Love PCGL has been a church in expansion for the last five decades. Our work indicates that PCGL chose radio and its own newspaper and magazines to divulge its activities. The study demonstrates that PCGL alienates itself from politics, does not give inte views to other radios, forbids the use of TV sets in homes and neither answers reporters nor scholars. On the one hand, based on our 11 years of experience in the PCGL, including five years as deacon, we reveal details that will provide subsidies to academic studies in general of nowadays Pentecostal phenomenon. On the other hand, by covering some areas not yet analyzed by the academy, we complement information that does not appear in David Martins de Mirandas autobiography, him being the founder of PCGL. Finally, we tried to identify the doctrines that characterize PCGL as well as its administrative processes. These denote a trend towards the professionalization of part of the Board of Directors in relation to the succession process. In terms of succession, we also analyzed the institutions reproduction, a process that until now is under the charisma of its founder who administers his church with all the characteristics of a family business, within the gradient sect/church. Our conclusions demonstrate that the strategies which fostered the expansion of PCGL are based on its radios stations, its big rallies, its proselytism and its fund raising efforts that together feed and support the growth of the Pentecostal Church God is Love.(AU)

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david miranda david miranda ciencias humanas mídia pentecostal igreja pentecostal deus é amor pentecostalismo brasileiro brazilian pentecostalism pentecostal church god is love pentecostal midia

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